So for my Yuletide, I had an uncommon request--not in terms of fandom obscurity, but in terms of, well, fandom obscurity; not many people on LJ are aware of a particular tumblr trend going on with the canons I requested. They were Gravity Falls, ParaNorman, and Coraline, and I had prompts for all of those, but, in a vague hope, I put in a bonus ( Read more... )

Yuletide!

( Fandoms: Gravity Falls, ParaNorman, Coraline, and sneaky bonus )

Sometimes I do this thing where after I watch a movie I liked I go read a bunch of reviews of it and then my feelings are magnified 2000%. This is pretty much what is happening with ParaNorman! It does not hurt that I have found the end credits song "Little Ghost" on YouTube and am listening to it on repeat. It's a good song, okay ( Read more... )

I just saw ParaNorman! And it continues in the fine tradition of “trailers not actually telling you what the movie is about”, because wow was this a lot sadder than I expected. Not depressing, just…quietly sad, at times. IDK, it was excellent and gorgeous and it made basically everyone who watched it want to give Norman a hug, so clearly they did a ( Read more... )

So, in the world of entertainment that isn't 1) animated, 2) gay porn, or 3) animated gay porn, Kings is pretty awesome. I adore Ian McShane despite only having seen him in two other things--Deadwood and Coraline--and I look forward to him being nominated for every acting-in-television award ever, because, y'know, Kings is a Serious Show and he is ( Read more... )

I like how when I have random fandom dreams, they're almost always about something I'm vaguely interested in at the time, but not all that obsessed with--I've never had a SPN dream, my only Heroes dream was Mylar-based, no Doctor Who, but there's been House, Good Omens, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, etc etc. What I am saying is, last night I ( Read more... )

A link from Neil Gaiman: Top 10 kids' movies inappropriate for kids. And now, of course, I fully intend to subject my future children to a Return to Oz/Time Bandits/The Adventures of Mark Twain/Dark Crystal/Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory marathon, because I saw all those movies in my impressionable years and loved them to bits. Obviously I ( Read more... )

So when I scanned the Other Wybie pic, I used a scanner in the dorm computer lab; it was perhaps twenty minutes after I did this that I realized I'd left the sketchbook in there. Worried, I rushed back to get it; it was lying next to the scanner, apparently unharmed. I took it home and thought nothing of it other than that evidently someone was ( Read more... )

Most whiplash-inducing turnaround between two movies viewed in a single day: Coraline and Zack And Miri Make A Porno.

Look, I just got a craving for a little Justin Long, okay?

I think, if I was much younger, Coraline would be the kind of movie I really, really wanted to stop watching because I was sure it would give me nightmares but really, really had to keep watching because otherwise I'd never know what happened and that would be worse. Does that make sense? To put it more simply, Coraline is a really good, really ( Read more... )